Second Australian and New Zealand meeting

The first Australian and New Zealand Stata Users Group (ANZSUG) meeting was
a big success in Adelaide in 2004. We will hold the second ANZSUG in
Melbourne in September 2006. Stata users from all disciplines and
experience levels are invited to attend.

The meeting's goal is to bring together a wide range of users to discuss
statistical analysis, data management, and graphics using Stata. We
encourage speakers to present their experiences with the package, whether
using standard commands, writing new programs, or exploiting the graphics
facilities.

There will be a 1-day workshop on mixed models in Stata the day after the
second ANZSUG. The workshop will be a hands-on opportunity to learn about
mixed models (often called random-effects models) and their implementation
in Stata. The application of these models includes variance-components
analysis, longitudinal (panel) data analysis, and hierarchical
(multilevel) regression. The workshop will focus on continuous-scale
dependent variables but will also cover categorical dependent variables.

Submission guidelines

Please email your submissions to
Rory.Wolfe@med.monash.edu.au
before August 11. The program committee will notify authors by 18 August
whether they will be required to present at the meeting.

Please submit final abstracts for oral presentations at the second ANZSUG
meeting on September 20. The available slots for presentations will be 10 or
20 minutes followed by discussion (total presentation lengths of 15 and 30
minutes). We are open to offers (with rationale) of shorter or longer talks
or of different presentation formats. Because of time constraints, we cannot
accept all abstracts.

Presentations may be on any topic related to using Stata in research or
teaching in any field. Examples include the following:

Using Stata for statistical analysis

User-written Stata programs

Importing and managing data in Stata

Using Stata for graphics

Teaching Stata

Teaching statistics with Stata

Using Stata in specific fields

Abstracts should be submitted to the appropriate
organizer, based on the topic of the abstract.
Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words with at most one reference.
Use ASCII text only. Indicate your preferred presentation style (oral or
your own format) and length (10 or 20 minutes).

You must electronically submit your presentation (slides)
to the organizing committee before the meeting.

Workshop on mixed models in Stata

StataCorp's mixed-models workshop is designed for people who are already
familiar with Stata.

Bring your own laptop if possible, although a few laptops will be available
for early birds. Workshop material will include multilevel and longitudinal
modeling using Stata with an emphasis on xtmixed, as well as some
gllamm.

Registration and accommodations

Register before August 25 to take advantage of early bird prices (both days for
$250.00 or one day for $150.00).
Regular registration is from August 25 until September 20 (both days for $450.00
or one day for $225.00).
To register, visit http://www.conferences.monash.org/stata06/index.cfm?p=313.